Thanks for the help - turns out I had to re-register the MScomCtl.ocx file - now it works file. hmmm Windows 7 has it in a folder called c:\Windows\SysWOW64. In the past I have used Access to reg and unreg OCX files - but could not fint it in Access 2007. So I found a cool piece of code on the net - just had to change the Windows path.